Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] [adj] be [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Nan 's no fool , and our precise Mr Peeble , who I am sure is quite used to pregnancies , will have detected something before now if not from the narration he has heard above his head over the past days . |
| 2 | This produced a reply which I am sure was wholly deserved ( though I can not remember the essay ) , as were his comments on an earlier submission . |
| 3 | I suppose I am happy being so ‘ tiny' ; it means I am able to surprise people with what is generally seen as my confident and outgoing personality . |
| 4 | The Children Act 1989 and the regulations made under that Act have imposed upon the justices a new and very substantial burden and one which I am aware is sometimes causing difficulty , as justices are not accustomed to giving a judgment or a detailed explanation of their findings and their reasons . |
| 5 | I 'm Froggy 's only relation , and I reckon I deserve the money after looking after him every winter for years . |
| 6 | erm I mean it 's a surely it 's a political decision is it not , I mean there 's been a lot of controversy as you I 'm sure are well aware about the Medley boat station ? |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sure being rather photogenic has helped me , ’ he says . |
| 8 | Slowly , as I 'm afraid is always the case . |
| 9 | And I understand that there was a reception which erm in as far as I 'm aware was actually erm organised and financed by the contractors who were building the motorway . |
| 10 | It 's best to bring an early morning , mid-flow sample with you , because the hormones that show that you are pregnant are most concentrated in your early-morning urine . |
| 11 | The way you look after yourself when you are pregnant is very important , both for you and your baby . |
| 12 | It is easy for us to slip into the assumption that the institutional , professional and curricular structures with which we are familiar are somehow natural or inevitable . |
| 13 | In the first place , the adjectives with which we are concerned are certainly not all adjectives of time . |
| 14 | The very activity is also an expression of faith in the tradition , of a willingness to understand oneself and the world in its terms and to carry on the argument , which in the area with which we are concerned is inescapably a normative argument , within the general framework defining the tradition . |
| 15 | The point with which we are concerned was therefore well in the mind of the committee . |
| 16 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 17 | Well it 's not of course , that 's absolute rubbish and of the cases that we 'll have here tonight , each of them if they are true are very very er unfortunate indeed , an and I would n't condone any of them if they 're true . |
| 18 | He 's very hard to actually know what they 're supposed be like certainly around , but not round my ears . |